Sitting outdoors on a chair with a fiddle propped against it, Ed Morrison faces another chair holding a hammered dulcimer, with a mountain dulcimer propped up against it. He plays the hammered dulcimer by striking it with sticks.
Location: 800 block of Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. "Broadway looking West from a point about 100 ft. east of Shelby" was written on the invoice indicating that this photograph was likely taken for insurance purposes. On a rainy day...
Radio broadcasting; Jug bands; African American musicians; Pianos; Microphones; African Americans; Musicians; People
A man in a suit stands holding a WHAS microphone. Next to him is a woman seated at a piano as if ready to play. Sheet music is propped on the piano's stand and the piano keys are exposed.
Located at the northwest corner of Third Street and Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky is the construction site of the Breslin Building. Supplies of lumber are stacked around an excavated area surrounded by wood walls. Groups of men in work clothes...
Women; People; Sick persons; Health care facilities; Sanatoriums; Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Louisville, Ky.)
A row of patients in beds sits on the porch at Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Each woman has a small table by her bed for glasses, flowers, books, and other materials. Several are propped up in bed reading. The beds are on wheels and each one is...
A note on the photograph indicates, "View looking west after the Tornado of June 2d 1875." The Masonic Home for Widows & Orphans, located on 2nd Street south of Bloom in Louisville, Kentucky, was incorporated on January 15, 1867. In...
President Franklin Roosevelt and an entourage of men in suits stand at the rear of a train car. At the end of the car is a sign for the Baltimore & Ohio Special and microphones from WHAS and WAVE radio stations are propped up by the car's rail....
Address: 2210 Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky. Trolley tracks run down the street where Bardstown Road meets Harvard Drive. On the left side is the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company and on the right are Taylors Drugs and Steiden Stores....
President Franklin Roosevelt and an entourage of men in suits stand at the rear of a train car. At the end of the car is a sign for the Baltimore & Ohio Special and microphones from WHAS and WAVE radio stations are propped up by the car's rail....
Automobile service stations; Tires; Automobiles; Radios; Buildings; Transportation
Location: southwest corner of First Street and Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Goodrich Silvertown Stores is shown. The building includes an ornate tower behind which a dome and steeple from a church can be seen. The service station has a car...
Automobiles; Stores & shops; Brick wall signs; Signs (Notices); Apartment houses; Young Men's Christian associations; Buildings; Transportation
View of Third Street near its intersection with West Broadway, showing cars driving and parked along Third Street; a bicycle propped against the curb in front of the Louisville Tube Vulcanizing Company at 666 S. Third Street; Smith Price Tire Co....
Boys sit on the floor or in wheelchairs between rows of beds at Kosair Children's Hospital (982 Eastern Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky). Crutches are propped against some of the beds.
World War, 1914-1918; Trench warfare; Military uniforms; Signs (Notices)
Soldier's coat, bedroll, satchel and other equipment are propped against a small dirt and rock wall outside a dugout in a trench during World War I. Sign on top of wall reads "C. M. Bureau."
World War, 1914-1918--France; Soldiers; Military life; Military uniforms; Mourning clothing & dress; Beds
Three soldiers sit on small wooden beds, or cots, in a low-ceilinged room during World War I. Insignia on the jacket collar of the man on the left, who is also in image ULPA 2004.003.006E, indicate he is in France's 139e Régiment d'Infanterie and...
Jean Thomas (center) stands behind a piano with a copy of her book, "Devil's Ditties" (published 1931) propped open on the stand. A man wearing two-toned shoes sits at the piano. He may be Hamilton Forrest, composer. A tall,...
A family Bible propped open to a page of the book of Malachi, facing a page marked 'Family Record.' On the left-hand (Malachi) side is handwritten "Mrs. Kate L. Bell, our dearly beloved mother, passed away Dec. 31, 1925 at 8:30 p.m. Funeral...
A completed mountain dulcimer, with a quill used to pluck its strings, sits on a chair with wooden frames used to construct dulcimers propped near it. Title supplied by cataloger.
Jilson Setters (a pseudonym for James William (J.W.) Day, 1860-1942) sits on a chair playing fiddle outside his log cabin in Rowan County, Kentucky. The roof is apparently being re-shingled, and a ladder is propped against the cabin. Title supplied...
Jilson Setters (a pseudonym for James William (J.W.) Day, 1860-1942) playing fiddle outdoors, with his feet propped on a woven stool and a basket (containing a drinking gourd) on his right. Title supplied by cataloger.